CDW White Paper Sample

In traditional backup, IT schedules sessions daily, weekly or monthly to write data changes to a secondary disk or tape target. These incremental backups save all changes made since the last backup. But if you back up your disk every evening, a disruption in the afternoon could cause you to lose data versions saved since the previous session. And there could be several changes to write at each backup session — if your business has lots of changing data, you’re looking at long backup windows and slower system performance.

With true CDP, each time a change happens on a networked device, an agent on that device notifies the CDP software, which writes the change to the dedicated CDP disk target. For added disaster protection, the software can also back up changes from an onsite backup target to a CDP target located offsite, in a safe location…